Object Results

record 1 of 1

<<first <previous

next> last>>

View:

thumbnails

text list

image & label

description

View 1 surrogates >
Zoomable Image
Submit comments about this object >

Untitled (Landscape)
circa 1940
20th Century
6 in. x 9 7/8 in. (15.24 cm x 25.08 cm)

Arshile Gorky
(Armenia, 1904 - 1948, Sherman, Connecticut)

Object Type:		Drawing

Medium and Support:		pencil, crayon on paper

Credit Line:		Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Purchase. 1988.040

Accession Number:		1988.040

Comments:		Gorky drew with every material-pencils and crayons, oil sticks, chalks, pen and ink, or with a sign-painter's "liner" brush to which de Kooning introduced him. He had a hungry eye and a skillful hand. Some drawings were studies which he developed through numerous variations until he executed the painting (s). the modest scale of Untitled (Landscape) would indicated that it is an early exercise in the development of a motif. The two outer figures have plantlike attributes. Such figures tended to be transformed into personages while the central element would evolve into a force yet unimagined, but all would be clarified in detail, embellished with rhythmic accent lines and added areas of color. As a composition coalesced, Gorky would tend to expand to 20-by-26-inch sheets and pursue complete variations with elaborations of each component and explorations of contrasts in dark and light, and color, so that when he turned to canvas, he was as familiar with his themes as with the faces of his children.

Keywords:

Portfolio List
This object is a member of the following portfolios (click any portfolio name to view all objects in that portfolio):

Keywords:

Your current search criteria is: Untitled (Landscape)